The Only Famous Motherboard
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN recommends it as an excellent history of the famous ABIT BP6 board.
What it is
Cathode Ray Dude's hour-long retrospective on the ABIT BP6, the dual-Celeron motherboard. He covers early multiprocessing, its legend, a build, running NT 4, benchmarks and the pros and cons of early SMP.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2025 to 2025.
What Hacker News said
Recommends runlevel1 · 2025-01 · on “Railroad Tycoon II”
Was that the period of time when you got more bang for your buck building a PC with dual-socket Celerons than one high-end Pentium? EDIT: An excellent retrospective on it here: [this video]
Recommends throwaway2037 · 2025-03 · on “3dfx: So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (2023)”
> Half of HN alive at the time probably had that motherboard - ABIT BP6 LOL. Yep. Me too. Cathode Ray Dude's channel has a great video about the history of this amazing motherboard: [this video]
Recommends svakak · 2025-12 · on “What Happened to Abit Motherboards”
Ah, Abit, the maker of Only Famous Motherboard as CRD woud call it in this long, but interesting, video. [this video]